Colleagues recall longtime lobbyist Dave Barrows

Barrows died Saturday at age 78

12:05 PM,
Mar. 18, 2014

Dave Barrows, longest-serving lobbyist in the Oregon Capitol, died Saturday at the age of 78. He first set foot in the Capitol as a page in 1955. His full-time lobbying dates to 1965, although he did some work in the 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1963 sessions.

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Tributes were paid Monday to Dave Barrows, a Portland lawyer and the longest-serving lobbyist in the Oregon Capitol with more than a half-century of experience.

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"You knew when you asked Dave a question that he was going to give you a straight answer," said Senate President Peter Courtney, the Democrat from Salem who at 29 years is the longest-serving member of the current Legislature. ...